Tuesday 23 February 2010

Call Sheet

Our group is going to film on the two following dates:

Joe is going to pick up the camera and tripod directly before we want to start filming on the certain dates.

We have decided to use Long Road and a field of Long Road as our location for filming. We will get to the location by walking. The Road and field is a public location and as we are near a road be will take health and safety considerations such as being careful of traffic.

We are filming our opening to a thriller film during the day. The time of day that is going to be portrayed in our opening to a thriller film will be at the end of a college day - so about late afternoon. Therefore no artificial lighting will be needed.

Heidi will be our main character in our film portraying a young girl who is being obsessively stalked and Jamie will act as the stalker. Liberty will play Heidi's college friend and Joe will act as a passer-by in our film. All members of our group will be involved in acting in the opening. A short script will have to be memorised in advance for Heidi and Liberty's characters when they are talking on the way home from college.

All of the group apart from Heidi will be part of the film crew. In the first scene with Heidi and Liberty, Jamie and Joe will be directing and filming the scene. When Jamie comes into the scene as the stalker Joe will continue with the camerawork and directing. When Liberty goes home in the scene she will then become part of the film crew and help Joe film the scene. Liberty will then film the scene where Joe comes into the scene as a passer-by and from then on Liberty and Joe will film and direct the scene where Heidi is running away from her stalker through the field.

In terms of props we will need a black hoody which Joe is in charge of bringing for Jamie to wear during his scenes so he can portray a dark disturbed stalker. Other props that will be used will be Heidi's bag which she will bring in herself and a bracelet that she will already own.

Our back up plan if bad weather disrupts filming is to continue with other work on our thriller film. We can work on the soundtrack and blog work as back up if bad weather disrupts our plans.

We are going to need two filming slots over two days to film our scenes. In our first day of filming we should capture the scenes that will take place on Long Road. In our second and last day of filming we will capture the field scenes where Heidi and Jamie will be involved in a chase scene.

The shots we are going to cover during our opening to a thriller film will include:
FIRST DAY
- establishing shot of Heidi and Liberty walking down the road introducing the location
- medium shots
- long shots
- over the shoulder shots
- shot-reverse-shots
- close ups

SECOND DAY
- tracking shots
- extreme close ups
- long shots
- canted angle shot
- low angle shot
- high angle shot

Sound we will need to capture includes diagetic sound such as the traffic, the train and the conversation between Heidi and Liberty.

Tuesday 9 February 2010

Evaluation on feedback from other groups

We agree with all the comments and suggestions we have been given, it is all constructive criticism. After reading the comments we will complete our ideas and expand on them using the feedback given. We will focus on adding detail about camera shots, sound, props and location. We need to put in more descriptions for the main and most important shots.

Friday 5 February 2010

Finalised Idea for Thriller Opening

Our opening sequence to a thriller film will be two minutes long. Our group has decided to call our thriller film "The Prowler". Below is an outline of the two minute opening split up into ten second sections.

0-10 seconds - establishing shot from the stalkers point of view watching Heidi and Liberty walking in front. This is shot in a long shot which slowly zooms in to a medium shot of Heidi and Liberty talking. The camera then zooms into a extreme closeup of Heidi's face.

11-20 seconds - Heidi turns around with a confused expression on her face (close up) she then turns back around. Over the shoulder shot of Liberty saying bye, this reverses to an over the shoulder shot of Heidi saying bye. There is then a tracking shot of Heidi's feet walking along, the music will become heavier and more intense at this moment.

21-30 seconds - There will be an over the shoulder shot of Joe walking past Heidi, he gives Heidi "the eye" and wolf whistles after he walks past her. There is then a long shot showing Joe walking towards the camera, who then bumps in to the stalker, but we only see the back of the stalker dressed all in black. As this happens Joe makes a disgusted and confused face.

31-40 seconds - Heidi becomes suspicious of the man after Liberty has left her and she is by herself. She keeps looking behind her and begins to panic and starts to walk faster. A close up will be used to show the confusion in her face and a medium shot will also be used so that the audience can see her surroundings and her turning around showing her vulnerability. The music will stay intense and eerie.

41-50 seconds - The stalkers feet are tracked on the camera whilst Heidi starts to walk even faster as she panics we will use shot reverse shot of the walking feet. Next there will be a shot of the stalker's point of view then an over the shoulder shot to show Heidi's point of view. The music is building as this happens.

51-60 seconds - Heidi starts running and her bag and bracelet fall to the ground on the side of the road as the action becomes frantic. The scene moves over to the field just off Long Road where tracking shots from behind Heidi will be used and medium shots to show the new location.

61-70 seconds - A shot of the bracelet and the bag which had fallen to the ground is shown. A close up will be used on these objects. There will be a point of view shot from Heidi's point of view - this shot should show how worried and scared she is.

71-80 seconds - In this part of the scene there will be a side on shot (profile shot) of Heidi running through the field. This shot should show the vulnerability of the protagonist as she will be running through an open field. A close up shot on the stalkers feet will be used to emphasise to the audience that he is still involved in the scene and acting as the antagonist to Heidi.

81-90 seconds - There will be a close up of Heidi's face as she is running away from the threat that is the stalker. Here, she turns back to look where the stalker is as her credits will appear here saying HEIDI PORTER where we will use slow motion when she turns back.

91-100 seconds - Heidi continues to run away from the man who she realises is obsessed with her and looks for somewhere to hide as she realises she cannot continue to run away as she will eventually get too tired. A high angle shot will be used on Heidi as she tries to find a a place to hide. A tracking shot will be used of the stalkers feet as we get a feeling he is getting closer to the protagonist.

101-110 seconds - Heidi finds a tree to hide behind to rest after running away from the stalker. She thinks she is safe - but she is not - the stalker is nearby! A close up shot will be used on Heidi's face to show here emotion where she will be feeling scared, vulnerable and cold. A medium panning shot is then used to show where the tree is, in comparison to where the rest of the scene was shot.

111-120 seconds - There is a close up of Heidi's face where a black flash will be used and after this appears the stalkers hand will appear over Heidi's face. The stalker will be wearing black gloves and the bracelet Heidi dropped. The film title, 'The Prowler', will appear out of the stalkers hand and the opening will end with a white fade.

Panic Room Titles Analysis



After viewing the "Panic Room" opening titles, we did not think that the titles were very effective as they merged into the background and did not contrast effectively. The titles did not give a clear indication to what the genre of the film was going to be as the titles were dull. The music however was very eerie which did give an indication that the film is going to be of the thriller genre. On there own, the titles do not give the audience an indication to the genre - music is needed. The backdrop behind the titles are scenes from New York, where the film is set. The scenes are filmed from and aerial view showing the tall buildings and skyscrapers acting as an establishing shot which tracks past buildings. This gives the viewers an indication to where the film is going to be set but does not give an indication to what genre the film is going to be. Therefore we have come to the conclusion that it is not an effective opening sequence.

Evaluation for "six feet under" credits

At the start of six feet under there is a reflection of the thriller genre because of the weird contrasting music to the action you see. At the start the music is very light and has a happy feel to it whilst the picture portrays death. We think that Death is shown by the tag on the mans foot, which indicates death. The credits do two things. One is that the credits appear in the atmosphere and dissolve away. The other is when the credits appear on different objects, for example the executives name is on the head stone and a name on the toe tag of the corpse. We will use the idea of dissolving the credits, but we will not be having our credits appear on different objects in the scene. Our scene will be different because the music to ours will be edgy and tense, but still upbeat to match the scene and not a contrast.

This picture is a clip from the opening scene and this shows the credits appearing on objects






This is another clip from the opening scene, but this shows the credits dissolving out.

Storyboard Continued

This is a continuation of our storyboard. We only put in the key shots in detail because they were the most important ones we need to focus on, we made a storyboard to organize and focus on the pivotal shots and to ensure we used a variety of shots and angles .the storyboard has helped to give a estimate for the length of the thriller.


This is our storyboard for our thriller. This is not the complete storyboard, however this outlines the most important scenes in our thriller. We outline the duration of each scene and the type of shot used.


This is our shot list. The shot list explains the camera shot's we will be using in our two minute opening sequence to a thriller film. It explains the types of shots used and the action of the camera. Also on the shot list we explain the location, props and costumes used in each shot.

Wednesday 3 February 2010

Garageband Soundtrack for Thriller Film

This is Jamie and Joe's thriller soundtrack that they have recently made in the lesson. The soundtrack follows conventions of a soundtrack in a thriller film.

Our Ident

This is our own ident that we created using photoshop. We are not very pleased with it as it does not have the desired effect therefore we will not be using it in our Thriller Opening.